WWE 2K24 launches in only a few weeks, as early as March 5 for some gamers, however the wrestling firm’s real-life authorized troubles have led to questions surrounding the sport. CEO Vince McMahon was named in a lawsuit filed by a former WWE worker over allegations of sexual misconduct, with subsequent reporting additionally implicating in-ring expertise Brock Lesnar. The query of the 2 people being playable characters in WWE 2K24 had develop into a burning one. And whereas they will not be a part of the principle roster, they don’t seem to be fully absent from the sport.
2K shared the official WWE 2K24 roster earlier at present, and after a lot hypothesis, confirmed that McMahon and Lesnar will not be within the sport’s lineup of 200+ playable characters. Nonetheless, talking with a supply acquainted with the sport’s improvement, GameSpot has discovered additional particulars about their presence.
“We’re all the time in lockstep with the WWE on how our sport displays what’s occurring within the WWE universe,” the supply defined to GameSpot. “Sure personalities play a job within the historic 2K Showcase and within the narrative-driven MyRise expertise, however will not be accessible on the playable roster.”
GameSpot has purpose to imagine the Lesnar vs. Undertaker match from WrestleMania 30 will nonetheless be featured in WWE 2K24. Lesnar’s 2014 match towards The Undertaker at WrestleMania 30, during which Lesnar ended his opponent’s WrestleMania successful streak after a document 21-0 begin, was extensively anticipated to be featured in 2K24 however has but to be introduced formally.
This match stays some of the well-known in WWE historical past, however it wasn’t included within the collection’ Showcase mode 10 years in the past when 2K first centered the expertise round WrestleMania’s best matches just because the match occurred just a few months after the launch of WWE 2K14. With 2K returning to this idea for the primary time in a decade with 2K24, it stands to purpose that this match is one in all a number of that gamers can play in Showcase mode. A unique match already confirmed for Showcase mode is Stone Chilly Steve Austin vs. The Rock at WrestleMania 17, which included an look from Vince McMahon, so it is doubtless this sequence will play out in-game, too.
Given what GameSpot’s supply mentioned, it stands to purpose one or each of the people will even seem within the sport’s story mode, MyRise. With the collection’ sturdy create-a-wrestler toolset, Lesnar and McMahon will doubtless even seem as downloadable community-made characters very quickly after the sport launches. Due to this fact, although the characters have been faraway from the roster of playable characters, they may nonetheless seem in-game in each official and unofficial methods.
WWE 2K24 arrives on March 8, with an early March 5 launch for gamers who buy the sport’s Deluxe or WrestleMania editions.